JL of Filmwatch writes:
In this day and age, it's no secret whatsoever that Hollywood studios has reservations about making R rated movies. When given the choice, most of the time they'll want to edit and cut an R rated movie to drop it down to PG-13. The reason behind this is quite simple: Money! But is this behavior justified?
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You would think that the PG13 movies would do better because you would have a bigger audience of wider age range but I guess that's not the case according to your figures. I find that surprising. I still don't think an R rating to be bad and i don't think they should take something that might be vital to the story away from a movie just to clean it up. That being said, most of the time you don't need a lot of the bad stuff to tell a good story either.
The studios will continue to do what's best for their pocket books in the long run.
i think even some true based storys might of fit the pg13 which is little off thinking kids might actually want to see stuff like that
I honestly think that films should be made with NO rating in mind. The director should make what he or she wants and let the MPAA be the last thing they worry about.
I hate when R rated films get cut down to PG13 or when a director tries to insert more stuff for a random R instead of the kid friendly PG13.
I prefer R rated movies, but if the film was meant to be PG13 then I can't really hold it against them.
The only time I think an R rating or PG 13 destroy movies is when they are meant for the opposite one. For example a movie gets an R rating because somebody simply said the F word one too many times....come on, you can't walk down the street without hearing it a good 10 times in real life.
And PG 13 is bad when a studio wants money so they cut out that violet scene or "fix" the language, take out that boob etc...it gets choppy and lame. I mean look at Shark Night, did anyone go see that movie to actually watch the movie? Ha no, everyone sitting in that theater wanted it to be as close to a porno as possible and have tons of violence.
Meanwhile I think a movie like Sucker Punch would of been better if he was allowed to make it an R rating.